Super-Networking Blog

This is a follow-up post to Clamp Down Security on Your Cisco Aironets with Win XP SP2. This post is not just applying to Cisco Aironets but anything that uses WEP.

People contiune to point out how easy it is to crack WEP. It has gotten to the point where WEP encryption can be broke within a minute. It doesn’t take much processing power to do it either, possibly able to be down with a PDA or Smartphone.

�NIST estimates that a machine that can break 56-bit DES key in 1 second would take about 149 trillion years to crack a 128-bit AES key (unless someone is very lucky)�

It is time to switch to WPA2 and I have the step by step on how to do it with a Cisco Aironet AP here.

Paper put together by Darmstadt Technical University.

Another good article on the subject.

Another good thing to do for a medium to large business is to get a good wireless IDS system like RF Protect. Check out my review here.